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Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to colleagues and friends who made this book possible . First, I thank Michelle Wright and Rod Ferguson; their delightful friendship and steadfast intellectual companionship have made not just this project, but the last decade so much better than it ever could have been without them. I also thank Richard Morrison for being, simply, the ideal editor: supportive, rigorous, and utterly committed to this project. I am grateful, as well, to other editorial staff at the University of Minnesota Press, including Erin Warholm, and to the anonymous readers for the Press, whose careful reading and incisive critique improved this book significantly. I thank, too, the following colleagues for their long-standing interest in and support of my work and for their extraordinary scholarship, which inspired and shaped this project throughout: Nancy Armstrong, Sara Blair, Madhu Dubey, Guy Mark Foster, Jonathan Freedman, Sharon Patricia Holland, Meta DuEwa Jones, Deborah E. McDowell, Joycelyn Moody, Aldon Nielsen, and Xiomara Santamarina. I owe a great deal to friends and colleagues at Macalester College, including Lynn Hudson, Sung Kyu Kim, Jane Rhodes, and the tremendously fun and brilliant members of the English Department. Thanks as well go to my wonderful students, whose deep commitment to intellection is both joyful and inspiring; thanks especially go to Jeesun Choi and Nathan Wilson-Traisman for their invaluable research assistance. I also wish to express my appreciation to librarians Angi Faiks, Terri Fishel, and Aaron Albertson for their dedication and their support of my scholarship and my field. Finally, thank you, Eugene, for always being there and for being such a fine reader-critic, listener, and friend. ...

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